{"id":96870,"date":"2013-12-06T18:47:55","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T18:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/how-do-you-charge-an-unarmed-man-with-shooting-people-get-the-nypd-involved\/"},"modified":"2013-12-06T19:13:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T19:13:02","slug":"how-do-you-charge-an-unarmed-man-with-shooting-people-get-the-nypd-involved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/how-do-you-charge-an-unarmed-man-with-shooting-people-get-the-nypd-involved\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Charge an Unarmed Man with Shooting People? Get the NYPD Involved."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scott Shackford<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In September, New York Police officers responded to an emotionally disturbed man causing a ruckus at a Times Square bus terminal by <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/15\/nypd-officers-shooting-at-crazed-guy-tak\" target=\"_blank\">opening fire<\/a> on him while they were surrounded by crowds and traffic. They missed him and hit two innocent bystanders (one of whom was in a walker). Police said at the time they thought the man, Glenn Broadnax, was reaching for a gun, but he turned out to be unarmed.<\/p>\n<p>Even though Broadnax was not armed, an indictment unsealed Wednesday is charging him with assault for the injuries caused by police gunfire. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/12\/05\/nyregion\/unarmed-man-is-charged-with-wounding-bystanders-shot-by-police-near-times-square.html?smid=re-share&amp;_r=1&amp;\" target=\"_blank\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The man, Glenn Broadnax, 35, of Brooklyn, created a disturbance on Sept. 14, wading into traffic at 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue and throwing himself into the path of oncoming cars.<\/p>\n<p>A curious crowd grew. Police officers arrived and tried to corral Mr. Broadnax, a 250-pound man. When he reached into his pants pocket, two officers, who, the police said, thought he was pulling a gun, opened fire, missing Mr. Broadnax, but hitting two nearby women. Finally, a police sergeant knocked Mr. Broadnax down with a Taser. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>Initially Mr. Broadnax was arrested on misdemeanor charges of menacing, drug possession and resisting arrest. But the Manhattan district attorney&#8217;s office persuaded a grand jury to charge Mr. Broadnax with assault, a felony carrying a maximum sentence of 25 years. Specifically, the nine-count indictment unsealed on Wednesday said Mr. Broadnax \u201crecklessly engaged in conduct which created a grave risk of death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe defendant is the one that created the situation that injured innocent bystanders,\u201d said an assistant district attorney, Shannon Lucey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/05\/how-do-you-charge-an-unarmed-man-with-sh\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Shackford In September, New York Police officers responded to an emotionally disturbed man causing a ruckus at a Times Square bus terminal by opening fire on him while they were surrounded by crowds and traffic. They missed him and hit two innocent bystanders (one of whom was in a walker). Police said at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":96872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-96870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}